Jurnal Sosial, Politik dan Budaya (SOSPOLBUD)
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023): July 2023

Eurocentrism in “The Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad”

Razak, Muhammad Fauzi (Unknown)
Riskiawati, Nur Sapta (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
04 Sep 2023

Abstract

This research addresses to analyze Eurocentrism in “Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative. Data were classified into primary and supporting data. The primary data were mainly from the Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The supporting data were from books, articles, and journals related to colonialism perspective. The design of this research focuses in revealing the colonial life in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness through Eurocentrism perspective. The result of this research is this colonization actually begun not only by economy factor but also it is empowered by creating discourse about such colonized country. Colonial discourse means how the west, colonizer or conquer create opinion to legitimate their conquest. This discourse also explains how the Europe (colonizer) constructs their identity and their colonized. This constructing creates binary-opposition judgment where in this novel through Marlow (as main character) depict that Europe’s colonization is based on their negative stereotyping. It is stated that the native Congo is wilder, cannibal, uncivilized and so on. So, at Marlow’s spirit in early they (colonizer) desire to civilize them (the native).

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Journal Info

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sospolbud

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Subject

Social Sciences

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Jurnal Sosial, Politik dan Budaya (SOSPOLBUD) is a journal that focuses on publishing research results or review articles on social, political and cultural topics. This journal publishes articles of high quality and has never been published either on online or offline platforms. The SOSPOLBUD ...